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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Myths of Slavery: Pt 3,291
Henry Louis Gates Jr., of ‘Stupid Cambridge Cop’ / Beer Summit fame is an angry, angry man. A bigger ‘racial’ chip on a shoulder you’ll never find. In “Free Blacks Lived in the North, Right?“, he discovers yet another piece … Continue reading
Going Clear – Pt. 213
For the better part of 20 years now, I’m been absolutely fascinated with the cult of Scientology. This past winter, I read Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear (when will someone make a movie about the events in this book?!), which really … Continue reading
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Jacob Riis: Bandit’s Roost
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a photojournalistic study of New York City slums in the 1880s. I find this photograph (“Bandit’s Roost”) from the book utterly mesmerizing.
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Booker T. Washington: Teachers & Preachers
“Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers. While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy … Continue reading
Life Imitating Art – Pt. 219,291
“[The] Native American community…is so behind this movie, it’s fantastic.” — The Lone Ranger Producer Jerry Bruckheimer “Ecstatic American Indians Praise ‘The Lone Ranger’: ‘Finally Our Story Is Being Told,’ Tribespeople Say” — The Onion
Posted in Humor, Political Correctness
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Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95%
The headline pretty much says it all.
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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C. (II)
“I took great interest in studying the life of our people there closely at that time. I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of … Continue reading
Essence Festival
This is great: On Friday, the state of Florida wrapped up its presentation of the case against George Zimmerman for the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin. Following the state resting, Zimmerman’s counselors argued a motion before the judge to acquit … Continue reading
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Glasses
From a lightweight article about Keith Olbermann (who?) snarking at MSBNC anchors, a commenter writes: The glasses are 90% of MSNBC content. Wearing glasses is like being a Nobel Prize grabbing chemist. Especially those Army surplus Birth Control Glasses that … Continue reading
Demographics and the GOP
In the latest installment of his RCP series (“Demographics and the GOP, Part IV“), Sean Trende writes: Republicans did take back the House, winning 62 percent of the two-party vote among whites. In fact, the Democrats’ share of the white … Continue reading
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